Its actual definition of homeschooling is fairly neutral: “to teach (one’s children) at home instead of sending them to school.”

Still, some parents aren’t happy. “I was appalled at three of the sentences your website uses as examples of how to use ‘homeschool’ in a sentence,” wrote one in an angry letter to the company. “Frankly the sentences don’t really help to define homeschooling except to clearly infer that homeschooling is something crazy done by crazy people,” said another.

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